He had originally intended it to be used for the cover of Cherryh's 1986 collection of short fiction, Visible Light, but it was "not warmly received by the publisher".

[3] C. J. Cherryh (a pseudonym for Carolyn Janice Cherry) is an American science fiction and fantasy author who has written over 60 novels.

He is professor of English at Mercer County Community College, New Jersey, where he teaches science fiction.

At the age of ten, Cherryh started writing her own stories when Flash Gordon, her favorite TV program was cancelled.

[8] Translator and poet Burton Raffel explores the literary aspects of most of Cherryh's science fiction novels in "C.J.

Here Clute analyses Cherryh's Gene War novels Hammerfall (2001) and its sequel Forge of Heaven (2004), and takes her writing to task, complaining about, amongst other things, the "literal back-and-forth slog through the desert" that dominates the story.

"[8] Bogstad maintains that Cherryh's books are "satires of their respective genres due to the conveyed intensity of the mental and emotional challenges the characters face in their out-of-the-ordinary experiences.

She shows how they "all absorb elements of the thinking, behavior, and worldview of their 'adopted' cultures",[9] that gives readers a "highly believable window into worlds and minds outside their own.

Both examine the relationship between a senior scientist Dr. Ariane Emory and her apprentice Justin Warrick at a research facility on the planet of Cyteen.

Cherryh" was compiled by Stan Szalewicz, a media librarian at Rider University in New Jersey, and is an in-depth 56-page document that comprises:[8][11] Jeff D’Anastasio, in a review of The Cherryh Odyssey in the SFRA Review described the book as "a remarkable anthology of personal tributes and literary analysis."